Soap cake



(No Model.)

3. R. HARE.

, Sqap Cake.

No. 237,861. Patented Feb. 15,1881.

Zij/ NJHERS, PHOTO-LIIHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. D C

I UNITED STATES @ATENT @FFICE.

JOHN R. HARE, 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SOAP CAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 237,861, dated February 15, 1881.

,Application filed July 26, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: J

Be it known that I, JOHN R. HAuE,of the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Soap Cakes, of which the following is a specification and I do hereby declare that in the same is contained a full, clear, and exact description of my said invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marlged thereon.

My invention relates to soap cakes; and it consists of a cake of soap to which a flexible suspensory attachment, ora flexible and elastic suspensory attachment, is secured by molding or pressing the suspensory attachments into the soap, whereby the soap may be secured to a wall or to a part of a wash-stand, in such position with reference to the wash-bowl or other vessel as to prevent the immersion of the soap cake in the water.

-'.It is well known that in the ordinary use of soap, both of the toilet and washing description, a very large proportion thereof is wasted by the soap beinglet't in the water; and that even if the soap, after use, is placed a soapdish having a perforated tray, sufficient water is retained between the soap and tray" tic-soften the under surface of the cake. I v In carrying out my invention I secure to the cake of soap, in any appropriate manner, a looped cord whereby the cake maybe suspended to a nail or hook. Any other suspensory devicesuch as a single cord or an elastic thread--may be used instead of the looped cord without changing the nature of .the invention.

In employing an elastic cord attached'to the cake of soap as a means of suspending it from a nail, hook, or other support, the cake of soap may be immersed in the water by the person using it, and the hands or a fabric to be washed soaped, when, by letting go the cake of soap, the elasticity of the cord will remove the soap from the water and leave it suspended from its point of support.

In the further description of my said invention which follows, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which Figure I is a perspective view of a cake of soap provived with the suspensory attachment. Fig. II is a perspective view of a fixed wash-stand, together with the suspended soap, the latter being shown on a reduced scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in both views.

In the said drawings, A represents the piece of soap, which may consist of either a slab out from a bar or acake formed in a mold.

B is the suspensory attachment, which in the present case is formed of a looped cord. The cord is preferably inserted in the empty soap-mold and the liquid soap poured around it; but it may be pressed into the cake before the same is hardened, or inserted in any other way that will admit of a proper fastening of the attachment to the soap cake.

I am aware that brushes and other toilet articles have heretofore been suspended by a string in order to remove them out of the way, and to place them in such a position that they will be convenient for use, and I therefore lay no claim, broadly, to suspending a toilet article by a string, my invention being confined to suspending a cake of soap by a string, whereby the soap is removed out of the way, and yet con venientto the user, and wastage of the soap prevented and its drying accelerated.

I claim as my invention- 1. A cake of soap having a string or othe suspensory attachment molded or pressed into the soap, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. A cake of soap having an elastic stringor other-elastic suspensory attachment molded or pressed into the soap, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN R. HARE. Witnesses WM. '1. HOWARD, Enw. MCUAFFRAY. 

